A coastal trough will linger about the region on Saturday, just north of Sydney, before moving south into Sunday, possibly forming a small low off the South Coast.
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/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/15/peaky-south-east-swell-all-weekend-one
thermalben
Friday, 15 March 2019
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/13/small-beachies-dominate-few-days-next
thermalben
Wednesday, 13 March 2019
There isn’t a great deal of excitement expected for the next few days. However, a tropical system is expected to begin slowly deepening south from Tonga on Friday, and will generate a long lived E/NE swell event next week.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/11/not-particularly-great-week-waves-ahead
thermalben
Monday, 11 March 2019
There’s a lot of interesting features on the long term charts, some of which are quite plausible, and some of which are much less certain and require a variety of circumstances to eventuate. More in the Forecaster Notes.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/08/lots-unusual-swell-sources-ahead-good
thermalben
Friday, 8 March 2019
No change to the weekend outlook - it still looks pretty tricky.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/06/interesting-south-swell-weekend
thermalben
Wednesday, 6 March 2019
The weekend looks a little tricky. And, the wave models are not properly picking up any of the swells I am expecting, so this reduces confidence in the outlook.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/04/lots-fun-swells-multiple-sources
thermalben
Monday, 4 March 2019
Despite the expected longer period E/NE groundswell from TC Pola not yet showing, I still think we’re going to see some new energy later today and into Tuesday morning. More in the Forecaster Notes.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/03/01/building-swells-out-ene-biggest-early
thermalben
Friday, 1 March 2019
Severe Tropical Cyclone Pola - currently Category 4, south of Fiji - will curve to the south-east over the coming days.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/02/27/fun-outlook-ahead-looking-best-early
thermalben
Wednesday, 27 February 2019
Tropical Cyclone Pola is currently E/SE of Fiji, and tracking southwards.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/02/25/plenty-fun-waves-ahead-entire-forecast
thermalben
Monday, 25 February 2019
All swell sources will ease through Tuesday.
/reports/forecaster-notes/sydney-hunter-illawarra/2019/02/22/average-weekend-winds-though-plenty
thermalben
Friday, 22 February 2019
So, the current NE swell from TC Oma will probably be short lived.
